Danny McBride 'Kanye asked me to play him in a movie of his life'

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He was plucked from obscurity by Will Ferrell and soon found himself sharing scenes with Tom Cruise and hotels with Steve Coogan. Now, TV’s funniest egotist is back – and taking on televangelists
Danny McBride has been a lot of arrogant men over the years. He’s napalmed jungles for fun. He’s pronounced himself the world’s greatest baseball player – despite a paunch like a department-store Santa. He has made deluded braggadocio into an artform and recently, he achieved its holiest of holy grails.
“Kanye asked me to play him in a movie of his life,” he laughs. “That was a pretty stunning phone call to get. I don’t know why he wanted me to do it. Maybe that sense of ego I’m able to portray? I have no clue.” Continue reading...

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